Merj
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A trusted digital consulting firm. Specialising in growth through competitive intelligence with #SEO, #PaidMedia, #DataMining, #Analytics and #Software.
London
Joined August 2013
๐ข We have partnered with @vercel to dive deep into Google's JavaScript rendering capabilities. Discover how this impacts your SEO and web performance. ๐๐ #SEO #WebDev #JavaScript
https://t.co/rGbwKSqhRb
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We analyzed billions of AI crawler requests to figure out how each crawler handles JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior. Here's what we found.
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๐ Exciting news for #SEO folks! We have released a new Python client for the Bing Webmaster Tools API, enabling easier data access from @bing's ecosystem. https://t.co/GMDtdMW7Dz The BWT API also has additional functionality including Bingbot crawl stats and regional
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Discover our open-source Python client for Bing Webmaster Tools API โ a production-ready solution for managing large-scale SEO operations with async support, type safety, and comprehensive API...
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๐จ SEO Research - Google ignores canonicals Our study of 595K domains found: 1) Google ignores canonicals with hreflang, lang, media, or type attributes. 2) 210 unique attributes used in canonicals across the set. 3) Many SEO tools do not report on it. https://t.co/kW49HEKulb
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TL;DR Our study, sparked by a content management system (CMS) migration anomaly discovered that certain attributes caused Google to ignore...
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๐จ We are publicly disclosing a Google bug which impacts rendering, ad targeting, and server access logs! Check out our latest research on discovery and diagnosis by @giacomozecchini
https://t.co/jMtY4bbCyU
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After discovering an anomaly in the client's server log data,ย we found that a part of the AdSense technology stack is not working as expected and the programmatic matching between ads and website...
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@lilyraynyc @JShehata @davewsmart @brightonseo @BillieGeena @rvtheverett @sarafdez @kameleonjournal @SequinsNsearch @TaylorDanRW @freddiechatt @BibiBuzzCom @THCapper @jonoalderson @nikrangerseo @Suzzicks @jessthebp @SophieBrannon @amandaecking @mira_inam @cyberandy @jdevalk @MaryaKazakova1 @markcandour @NicoleCPonce @screamingfrog @di_ry @MrDannyGoodwin @MediaWyse @rollerblader @ViperChill @seovision @JNesterets @LoukilAymen @Adoubleagent @bertiecharlton @Giridja @UlrikaViberg @adrianakstein A new edition of #SEOFOMO was sent to +30.2K SEOs w/ awesomeness by @fernandomacia @jes_scholz @seostratega @seovision @giacomozecchini @amandatjordan @adrianakstein @bngsrc @finderika @chimammeje @AlizeeBaudez & more! Check your email or subscribe now https://t.co/9obZMh82ox ...
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I love this type of empirically sound SEO research by @giacomozecchini that yields actionable insights. It's a rare sight in a world often dominated by anecdotes with a good chunk of alchemy. It's a good primer on how Google's crawling pipeline appears to work, and how one can
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SEO Research by @giacomozecchini - How we improved the efficiency of bot crawling by optimising the resources that were requested during rendering. https://t.co/p9It6gyMDv
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@DavidCarralon @Kevin_Indig Session isolation may be a factor as well. JetOctopus stores more than one session in IndexedDB local storage. ref @giacomozecchini's case study https://t.co/HZfNRwvtZ3
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Today at 3pm (GMT), join our SEO engineering webinar. It's a deep dive into how businesses should set up session isolation correctly for web crawlers. ๐ฝ๏ธWebinar: https://t.co/3rY9gyV5TS ๐๏ธResearch article: https://t.co/JaUze0dLRu
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We provide a Docker container which contains the full crawl testing framework so that all web crawling providers can benefit from the research https://t.co/DzpBHOin0R
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Contribute to merj/test-crawl-session-isolation development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The tests were for... Storage Isolation: 1. Cookie 2. IndexedDB 3. LocalStorage 4. SessionStorage Cross-tab communication: 5. Broadcast Channel 6. Shared Worker
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๐๏ธDoes your business rely on data from web crawlers for campaigns, decision making and machine-learning inputs? In this research, @giacomozecchini shared 6 tests that were performed across 14 popular crawling providers. https://t.co/JaUze0de1W
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Does your company rely on a web crawling platform as a data source to make business decisions, machine learning, or manage risk? @giacomozecchini will deep dive into how web crawlers should be isolating sessions correctly and the effects of not doing it. https://t.co/3rY9gyUy4k
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After yesterday's @webperfwg discussion about exposing bfCache eligibility/issues through an API, waiting for that to be spec and implemented, I've written this thing to automate the bfcache eligibility test:
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This script checks if a page is bfcache eligible and prints reasons if it isn't. It can be easily modified to check multiple pages. - bfcachetest.js
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I can think of few things as marvelous as a shout out in the Year in Search Central 2021 recap from the magical @g33konaut alongside @giacomozecchini, @davewsmart, @bart_goralewicz, and @TomekRudzki
https://t.co/YBLWrJbXhB
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Looking for a challenge? Join our marketing technology team as a Senior Technical SEO Research Consultant ๐. You'll get to work with enterprise clients, AWS infrastructure and build tools. More information here ๐
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1/ <link rel="preconnect dns-prefetch" href="//api.example.com"> vs. <link rel="preconnect" href="//api.example.com"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//api.example.com"> Does the `preconnect` in the first example fallback to `dns-prefetch`
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I'm looking to give an advanced technical webinar to leverage CrUX data and page speed optimisations to prepare for algo changes in May 2021, from a data engineering and auditing point of view. If you are interested, drop a couple of details here: https://t.co/RRWPj1E0bE
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